Docker on Amazon Web Services | 6. Building Custom ECS Container Instances

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This is the “Code in Action” video for chapter 6 of Docker on Amazon Web Services by Justin Menga, published by Packt. It includes the following topics:

00:12 Installing Packer
00:55 Configuring a builder
01:45 Configuring variables
02:08 Configuring provisioners
02:34 Configuring post-processors
03:00 Generating dynamic session credentials
03:53 Automating generation of dynamic session credentials
04:34 Building the image
05:47 Adding EBS volumes
06:53 Formatting and mounting volumes
07:42 Installing additional packages
07:56 Configuring timezone settings
08:48 Modifying default cloud-init behavior
09:16 Configuring a cleanup script
09:46 Creating a first-run script
10:18 Configuring HTTP proxy support
10:43 Configuring the CloudWatch logs agent
10:51 Starting required services
10:59 Performing required health checks
11:09 Testing your custom ECS container instance image

Docker is the modern standard for building, testing, distributing and deploying cloud native applications, whilst AWS is the world’s leading public cloud provider. Together these technologies provide you with a powerful platform to deliver your container

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Video created by Justin Menga